Co-Authors Back Goldstone's First Report

Three of the co-authors of a UN report, concluding that Israel committed war crimes during its war on Gaza, say they stand by their investigation.

Rejecting calls to retract the report, as the leading author of the document, Richard Goldstone, recently said, they insisted on Thursday that they would oppose any attempts to cancel the report's conclusion.

They said in a statement to The Guardian newspaper in Britain that they found it “necessary to dispel any impression that subsequent developments have rendered any part of the mission's report unsubstantiated,” AFP reported.

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